| Tuesday, April 17, 2007 |
| Plenary session | Preview presentations(Bay Ballroom E) |
| 8:30 - 8:45 | K. Burrell / P. Gohil | Welcome / Logistics |
| 8:45 - 10:05 | K. Burrell (Chair) | |
| X. Garbet | Towards a predictive understanding of particle transport |
| 10:05 - 10:30 | Break |
| 10:30 - 11:50 | P. Diamond (Chair) | |
| M. Farge | The role of coherent structures for transport in fully-developed fluid turbulence |
| 11:50 - 1:30 | Lunch |
| 1:30 - 4:10 | C. Greenfield (Chair) | |
| 1:30 - 2:50 | T.S. Hahm / O.D. Gurcan /
P.H. Diamond | Plasma Rotation and Momentum Transport I & II |
| 2:50 - 4:10 | S.E. Sharapov | Fast particle transport: from present-day experiment and modelling towards control of burning plasmas |
| 4:10 - 4:30 | Break |
| 4:30 - 5:50 | B. Breizman (Chair) | |
| A.W. Leonard | A Development Path for a Validated Pedestal Model |
| 6:30 - 9:30 | | Reception (William D. Evans sternwheeler) |
| Wednesday, April 18, 2007 |
| Plenary session | Plenary session(Bay Ballroom E) |
| 8:30 - 10:00 | P. W. Terry (Chair) | Verification and Validation |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Break |
| Parallel Working sessions | Parallel group sessions |
| 10:30 - 12:00 | | Core I (Bay Ballroom E) |
| Edge I (Del Mar) |
| Energetic Particles I (Marina) |
| Momentum I (Ventana) |
| 12:00 - 1:30 | Lunch |
| 1:30 - 3:00 | | Poster session - Core group (Bayside Pavilion) |
| 3:00 - 3:30 | Break |
| 3:30 - 6:00 | | Core II (Bay Ballroom E) |
| Edge II (Del Mar) |
| Energetic Particles II (Marina) |
| Momentum II (Ventana) |
| Thursday, April 19, 2007 |
| Parallel Working sessions | Parallel group sessions |
| 8:30 - 10:00 | | Core III (Bay Ballroom E) |
| Edge III (Del Mar) |
| Energetic Particles III (Marina) |
| Momentum III (Ventana) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Break |
| 10:30 - 12:00 | | Core IV (Bay Ballroom E) |
| Edge IV (Del Mar) |
| Energetic Particles IV (Ventana) |
| 12:00 - 1:30 | Lunch |
| 1:30 - 3:00 | | Poster session - Edge/ Energetic Particles/ Momentum groups (Bayside Pavilion) |
| 3:00 - 3:30 | Break |
| 3:30 - 6:00 | | Core V (Bay Ballroom E) |
| Edge V (Del Mar) |
| Energetic Particles V (Ventana) |
| Friday, April 20, 2007 |
| Plenary session | Group Summaries(Bay Ballroom E) |
| 8:30 - 10:00 | K. Burrell (Chair) | |
| 8:30 - 9:15 | P.H. Diamond | Momentum Group |
| 9:15 - 10:00 | B. N. Breizman | Energetic Particles Group |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Break |
| 10:30 - 12:00 | P. Diamond (Chair) | |
| 10:30 - 11:15 | D. E. Newman | Core Group |
| 11:15 - 12:00 | R.J. Groebner | Edge Group |
| 12:00 | | Meeting closed |
|
| Core Tranport Group sessions |
| Wednesday, April 18, 2007 |
| 10:30 - 12:00 | Core I: Fundamentals |
| D.R. Ernst | Direct Observation of TEM Turbulence and Nonlinear Upshift of TEM Critical Density Gradient |
| K.W. Gentle | Magnetic Fluctuations Associated with Electrostatic Drift-Wave Turbulence |
| F. Hinton | Nonlinear excitation and damping of Zonal Flows using a renormalized polarization response |
| I. Holod | Discrete particle noise in particle-in-cell simulations of plasma turbulence |
| F. Merz | The physics of trapped electron mode turbulence |
| 3:30 - 5:00 | Core II: Transport |
| W.X. Ding | Core Measurements of Magnetic Fluctuation-Induced Particle and Momentum Flux in MST |
| Z. Lin | Turbulent transport via wave-particle decorrelation in collisionless plasmas |
| G.R. McKee | Scaling of Turbulence and Transport with Toroidal Mach Number |
| P.A. Politzer | Effects of Toroidal Rotation on Hybrid Scenario Plasmas |
| N. Tamura | Experimental study on nonlocal electron heat transport in LHD |
| 5:00 - 6:00 | | Discussion |
| Thursday, April 19, 2007 |
| 8:30 - 10:00 | Core III: Transport and Fundamentals 1 |
| W.M. Nevins | Time Scales in Plasma Microturbulence |
| Y. Sarazin | Gyrokinetic simulations of ITG turbulence with GYSELA 5D |
| F. Jenko | Scale-separation between ion and electron heat transport |
| W.W. Lee | Issues Associated with Steady State Turbulence Simulations |
| W. Guttenfelder | Theory Based Transport Modeling of ECRH Plasmas in HSX |
| 10:30 - 12:00 | Core IV: Barriers etc |
| M.E. Austin | Role of ExB shear zonal flow and rational q in ITB formation |
| M.W. Shafer | Local Core Turbulence Dynamics During q_min-Triggered Internal Transport Barriers on DIII-D |
| C.J. McDevitt | Low-q resonances, transport barriers, and secondary electrostatic convective cells |
| D.L. Brower | Magnetic Fluctuation-Induced Charge Transport and Zonal Flow Generation in MST |
| A.H. Kritz | Plans for the PTRANSP Project |
| 3:30 - 5:00 | Core V: Transport and Fundamentals 2 |
| J.A. Carlsson | Block quasi-Newton solver for transport equations |
| D. del-Castillo-Negrete | Nonlocal transport and fast pulse propagation |
| N. Vianello | Energy balance including turbulence effects in Reversed Field Pinch Plasmas |
| R. Sanchez | Overview of recent results regarding the appearance of non-diffusive behaviour in fluid and gyrokinetic turbulence codes |
| R.V. Bravenec | Developing Experimentally Relevant Benchmarks for Gyrokinetic Microstability Codes |
| 5:00 - 6:00 | | Discussion |
|
| Edge Transport Group sessions |
| Wednesday, April 18, 2007 |
| 10:30 - 12:00 | Edge I: Pedestal Theory / Models |
| C. Hidalgo | On the Link Between Flows, Turbulence and Electric Fields on the Edge of Fusion Plasmas (joint session with momentum group) |
| A.Y. Pankin (G. Bateman) | Dynamic Modeling of Equilibrium in XGC Gyrokinetic Simulations of Pedestal Evolution |
| M.A. Malkov | Dynamics of the L-H and H-L Transitions, and Implications for the Pedestal |
| W.M. Stacey | Ion particle transport in the edge pedestal |
| L. Chen | Radial structures and nonlinear excitation of Geodesic Acoustic Modes (joint session with Energetic Particles group) |
| 3:30 - 6:00 | Edge II: Pedestal Theory / Models |
| C.S. Chang | Can the H-mode be sustained by neoclassical mechanisms? |
| Z. Xiong | TEMPEST Simulations of the Geodesic Acoustic Mode |
| Y. Xiao | Gyrokinetic Simulation of Trapped Electron Mode in Tokamak Edge Plasmas |
| T.D. Rognlien | An interpretive mode for the UEDGE transport code |
| R.D. Smirnov (S. Krasheninnikov) | Modeling of dust in tokamak plasmas |
| Thursday, April 19, 2007 |
| 8:30 - 10:00 | Edge III: H-mode Experiment |
| A.E. Hubbard | Two-phase L-H transitions in unfavorable configurations in Alcator C-Mod |
| J.E. Maggs | Rotation induced L to H mode transition of a cyclindrical plasma column |
| D.M. Thomas | Edge Current Dynamics During ELMs |
| R.A. Moyer | Pedestal Turbulence and Transport Response to an External Magnetic Perturbation in DIII-D |
| 10:30 - 12:00 | Edge IV: Tests of Models |
| U. Stroth | Experimental study of the electromagnetic component of drift-wave turbulence |
| J.D. Callen | Paleoclassical H-Mode Pedestal Modeling |
| R.J. Groebner | Initial Tests of TGLF Transport Model With Experimental H-Mode Pedestal Data in DIII-D |
| D.P. Stotler | A Step Closer to a Validation Exercise |
| 3:30 - 6:00 | Edge V: SOL/Edge Transport |
| S.H. Muller | Plasma blobs in a basic toroidal experiment: Origin, dynamics and induced transport |
| I. Furno | Mechanism for plasma blob generation and transport in the TORPEX toroidal plasma |
| K. Schneider | Extraction of coherent structures from turbulent edge plasma in magnetic fusion devices using orthogonal wavelets |
| T.A. Carter | Structure and statistics of turbulently generated blobs and holes in LAPD |
| J.A. Boedo | Experimental Tests of Turbulent Transport Near Marginal Stability |
| D.A. D'Ippolito | Recent progress in SOL turbulence simulations |
|
| Energetic Particles Group sessions |
| Wednesday, April 18, 2007 |
| 10:30 - 12:00 | Energetic Particles I |
| W.W. Heidbrink | Spatial Transport of Fast Ions by Alfven eigenmodes in DIII-D |
| M. Porkolab | Observations of Alfven Cascades During ICRF heating in Alcator C-Mod |
| J.A. Snipes | A Comparison of Alfven Eigenmode Stability in L- and H-mode |
| L. Chen | Radial structures and nonlinear excitation of Geodesic Acoustic Modes (joint oral with Edge transport group - Del Mar room) |
| 3:30 - 6:00 | Energetic Particles II |
| Y. Luo | Fast-Ion Profiles in Quiet Plasmas |
| D.S. Darrow (N.A. Crocker) | MHD Induced Neutral Beam Ion Loss from NSTX |
| K.W. Hill | Effects of MHD and Toroidal Field Ripple on Fast Ion Loss from JET |
| Y. Zhang | Shear Alfven Wave Spectra in a Periodic Magnetic Mirror Array |
| J.W. Van Dam | Direct Drive by Cyclotron Heating Can Explain Spontaneous Rotation in Tokamaks (joint oral with Momentum group - Ventana Room) |
| Thursday, April 19, 2007 |
| 8:30 - 10:00 | Energetic Particles III |
| B.N. Breizman | Alfven Cascade Quasi-modes |
| H. Berk | Driven Frequency-Sweeping in Plasmas |
| Y. Nishimura | Alfven Continuum and Toroidal Gap Generation in Global Electromagnetic Gyrokinetic Simulations |
| T. Hauff (F. Jenko) | Redistribution of fast particles by background turbulence |
| 10:30 - 12:00 | Energetic Particles IV |
| N.N. Gorelenkov | Global Beta-induced Alfven-Acoustic Modes in JET and NSTX |
| N.A. Crocker | Investigation of fast ion mode nonlinear dynamics and spatial structure in NSTX |
| S.E. Sharapov | Recent JET experiments with ICRH accelerated ions |
| 3:30 - 6:00 | Energetic Particles V |
| R.V. Budny | Predictions of fast ion parameters in ITER Advanced Plasmas |
| N.N. Gorelenkov | Theory milestone, update on ITER TAE stability simulations |
| R. Nazikian, J. Van Dam | BPO discussion |
|
| Momentum Group sessions |
| Wednesday, April 18, 2007 |
| 10:30 - 12:00 | Momentum I |
| C Hidalgo | On the Link Between Flows, Turbulence and Electric Fields on the Edge of Fusion Plasmas (joint oral with Edge group - Del Mar room) |
| A. Bortolon | Toroidal Momentum Transport in Limited and Diverted Ohmic Plasmas |
| Discussion |
| 3:30 - 6:00 | Momentum II |
| V. Naulin | Momentum Transport in the Edge and into the SOL |
| T.S. Hahm | Nonlinear Gyrokinetic Theory of Toroidal Angular Momentum Pinch |
| R.V. Budny | Gyrokinetic Simulations of Angular Momentum Transport and Comparisons with Experiments |
| O.D. Gurcan | Turbulent Generation of Poloidal Rotation and Self-Consistent Plasma Dynamics |
| J.W. Van Dam | Direct Drive by Cyclotron Heating Can Explain Spontaneous Rotation in Tokamaks (joint oral with Energetic Particles group) |
| Discussion |
| Thursday, April 19, 2007 |
| 8:30 - 10:00 | Momentum III |
| R.E. Waltz | Gyrokinetic Simulation of Toroidal Angular Momentum Transport |
| P.H. Diamond | Physics of Intrinsic Rotation |
| W.M. Solomon | Investigation of Global Momentum Confinement Times on DIII-D |
| A.C. Ince-Cushman | Scaling Laws for Intrinsic Toroidal Rotation in High Confinement Mode Plasmas |
| D.J. Schlossberg (McKee) | Dependence of Edge Turbulence Dynamics and the L-H Power Threshold on Toroidal Rotation |
| Discussion |
Posters
Wednesday, April 18 - Thursday, April 19 2007
All posters need to be put up by 1:30 PM on Wednesday, April 18 and to remain on display until 3:00 PM on Thursday, April 19, 2007 |
| Wednesday, April 18, 2007 |
| 1:30 - 3:00 | Core Transport group |
| P1 | Angelino | Benchmark of a semi-Lagrangian and a Lagrangian code for gyrokinetic simulations |
| P3 | Callen | Paleoclassical Model: Minimum Transport Levels |
| P5 | Candy | Progress on a Fully Gyrokinetic Transport Code |
| P7 | DeBoo | Design of an Experiment to Discriminate Between ITG and TEM Turbulence |
| P9 | Doyle | Turbulence Measurement Possibilities for ITER |
| P11 | Fahey | Status on the computational aspects of developing a fully gyrokinetic transport code |
| P13 | Fiore | ITB Transport Studies in Alcator C-Mod |
| P15 | Greenwald | Density Peaking And Particle Transport At Low Collisionality On Alcator C-Mod |
| P17 | Hamada | Change of Zonal Flow Spectra in the JIPP T-IIU Tokamak Plasmas |
| P19 | Holland | Comparison of Gyrokinetic Simulation Against Core Turbulence Fluctuation Measurements via Virtual Diagnostics |
| P21 | Ishizawa | Multi-scale interactions among macro-MHD, micro-turbulence, and zonal flows |
| P23 | Kaye | Confinement, transport and turbulence properties of NSTX plasmas |
| P25 | Kim | Electron tranport analysis in NSTX |
| P27 | Kinsey | Plasma Shaping Effects on Driftwave Transport and ExB Shear Quenching in GYRO Simulations |
| P29 | Kruger | Overview of Framework Application for Core-Edge Transport Simulations (FACETS) |
| P31 | Leboeuf | Particle characterization of transport in global gyrokinetic calculations of ion channel turbulence in tokamak plasmas |
| P33 | Lin, L. | Experimental Studies of Turbulence with the Phase Contrast Imaging Diagnostic in the Alcator C-Mod Tokamak |
| P35 | Mier | Non-diffusive features of near-critical DTEM-turbulence in the presence of a subdominant diffusive transport channel |
| P37 | Newman | Role of polarization and ExB nonlinearities in setting tracer transport features in dissipative-trapped-electron-mode turbulence |
| P39 | Pace | Energy Transport Driven by Electron Temperature Gradients |
| P41 | Plunk | Gyrokinetic Secondary Instability Theory for Electron and Ion Temperature Gradient Driven Turbulence |
| P43 | Pratt | Control of Fluctuations in the GAMMA-10 by Sheared Flow |
| P45 | Rhodes | ETG Scale Turbulence and Plasma Transport in the DIII-D Tokamak |
| P47 | Romanelli | Two fluid global simulations of internal and external transport barrier formation and relaxation phenomena in tokamaks |
| P49 | Rowan | Impurity Transport for r/a < 1 in the Alcator C-Mod Tokamak |
| P51 | Samaddar | Noise in transport models |
| P53 | Schmitz | First Doppler Reflectometry Results from the DIII-D Tokamak |
| P55 | Staebler | Saturation Rule for the TGLF Transport Model Fit to Shaped Geometry GYRO Simulations |
| P57 | Stutman | Dependence of the perturbed electron transport on heat flux and q-profile in NSTX |
| P59 | Terry | Nonlinear Refractive Suppression of Turbulence and Transport by Strong Magnetic Shear |
| P61 | Vermare | Studies of the beta dependence of transport in ASDEX Upgrade |
| P63 | Wang, W. | Gyrokinetic Simulation Studies of Plasma Transport in NSTX Experiments |
| P65 | White | Study of Electron Temperature Fluctuations in DIII-D using a Correlation ECE Diagnostic |
| P67 | Wong | Microtearing instabilities and electron transport in NSTX |
| P69 | Zakharov | Equilibrium Spline Interface (ESI) for magnetic confinement codes |
| P71 | Ernst | Direct Observation of TEM Turbulence and Nonlinear Upshift of TEM Critical Density Gradient |
| P73 | Gentle | Magnetic Fluctuations Associated with Electrostatic Drift-Wave Turbulence |
| P75 | Hinton | Nonlinear excitation and damping of Zonal Flows using a renormalized polarization response |
| P77 | Holod | Discrete particle noise in particle-in-cell simulations of plasma turbulence |
| P79 | Merz | The physics of trapped electron mode turbulence |
| P81 | Lin, Z. | Turbulent transport via wave-particle decorrelation in collisionless plasmas |
| P83 | McKee | Scaling of Turbulence and Transport with Toroidal Mach Number |
| P85 | Politzer | Effects of Toroidal Rotation on Hybrid Scenario Plasmas |
| P87 | Tamura | Experimental study on nonlocal electron heat transport in LHD |
| P89 | Nevins | Time Scales in Plasma Microturbulence |
| P91 | Sarazin | Gyrokinetic simulations of ITG turbulence with GYSELA 5D |
| P94 | Jenko | Scale-separation between ion and electron heat transport |
| P95 | Lee | Issues Associated with Steady State Turbulence Simulations |
| P96 | Guttenfelder | Theory Based Transport Modeling of ECRH Plasmas in HSX |
| P97 | Austin | Role of ExB shear zonal flow and rational q in ITB formation |
| P98 | Shafer | Local Core Turbulence Dynamics During q_min-Triggered Internal Transport Barriers on DIII-D |
| P99 | McDevitt | Low-q resonances, transport barriers, and secondary electrostatic convective cells |
| P100 | Brower | Magnetic Fluctuation-Induced Charge Transport and Zonal Flow Generation in MST |
| P101 | Kritz | Plans for the PTRANSP Project |
| P102 | Carlsson | Block quasi-Newton solver for transport equations |
| P103 | del-Castillo-Negrete | Nonlocal transport and fast pulse propagation |
| P104 | Vianello | Energy balance including turbulence effects in Reversed Field Pinch Plasmas |
| P105 | Sanchez | Overview of recent results regarding the appearance of non-diffusive behaviour in fluid and gyrokinetic turbulence codes |
| P106 | Bravenec | Developing Experimentally Relevant Benchmarks for Gyrokinetic Microstability Codes |
| Thursday, April 19, 2007 |
| 1:30 - 3:00 | Edge Transport group |
| P2 | Belli | Unified Gyrokinetic Simulations of Drift Wave Turbulence and Neoclassical Transport |
| P4 | Callen | Paleoclassical H-Mode Pedestal Modeling |
| P6 | Dahlburg | Helimak Fluctuation Analysis comparing Fluid Simulations and Data |
| P8 | Dorris | Localized Measurement of Short Wavelength Plasma Fluctuations with the DIII-D Phase Contrast Imaging Diagnostic |
| P10 | Joseph | Calculation of the Thermal Footprint of Resonant Magnetic Perturbations in Poloidally-Diverted Tokamaks |
| P12 | Kamberov | Turbulent Transport of Plasma Observed in Model-Independent Simulations of the Scrape-Off Layer |
| P14 | Ku | Verification of XGC, a gyrokinetic edge particle code |
| P16 | Naulin | Momentum transport in the edge and into the SOL |
| P18 | Park, G. | Kinetic simulation of 3D magnetic field perturbation effects on pedestal and ELM |
| P20 | Park, H. | NSTX High-k Scattering System on NSTX: Status and Plan |
| P22 | Pigarov | Simulation of parallel SOL flows with UEDGE. |
| P24 | Ramisch (Stroth) | Observation of large-scale coherent structures under strong ExB shear |
| P26 | Rost | Eigenmode Analysis of Turbulence Measurements from the DIII-D Phase Contrast Imaging Diagnostic |
| P28 | Rudakov | Statistical Properties of Electrostatic Fluctuations and Turbulent Cross-Field Fluxes in DIII-D SOL |
| P30 | Schlossberg (Schafer) | Dependence of Edge Turbulence Dynamics and the LH Power Threshold on Toroidal Rotation |
| P32 | Snyder | Understanding the Power Dependence of the Pedestal |
| P34 | Umansky | Progress in BOUT modeling of NSTX edge plasma |
| P36 | Wang, G. | Broadband Magnetic and Density Fluctuation Evolution Prior to First ELM in DIII-D Edge Pedestal |
| P38 | Xu, M. | Experimental Setup for Nonlinear Energy Transfer Measurements in the Frequency Domain |
| P40 | Yan | Magnetic-field scaling of turbulence-driven shear flows in a linear magnetized plasma |
| P42 | Yu | Fast Imaging of ELM Structure in DIII-D |
| P44 | Zeng | Effects of Resonant Magnetic Perturbations on Edge Density Profile in DIII-D |
| Momentum group |
| P46 | Broemstrup | Coherency in plasma turbulence |
| P48 | Ding | Core Measurements of Magnetic Fluctuation-Induced Particle and Momentum Flux in MST |
| P50 | Johnson | Angular Momentum Transport Rates from Rotation Measurements: I, II |
| P52 | Ebrahimi | Momentum transport from current-driven reconnection |
| P54 | Kuritsyn | Transport of Parallel Momentum during Reconnection Events in the Madison Symmetric Torus Reversed Field Pinch |
| P56 | Rice | Scaling Laws for Intrinsic Toroidal Rotation in High Confinement Mode Plasmas |
| P58 | Xu, X.Q. | TEMPEST Simulations of the neoclassic radial electric field and bootstrap current |
| Energetic Particles group |
| P60 | Heidbrink | Spatial Transport of Fast Ions by Alfven eigenmodes in DIII-D |
| P62 | Porkolab | Observations of Alfven Cascades During ICRF heating in Alcator C-Mod |
| P64 | Snipes | A Comparison of Alfven Eigenmode Stability in L- and H-mode |
| P66 | Chen | Radial structures and nonlinear excitation of Geodesic Acoustic Modes |
| P68 | Luo | Fast-Ion Profiles in Quiet Plasmas |
| P70 | Darrow (Crocker) | MHD Induced Neutral Beam Ion Loss from NSTX |
| P72 | Hill | Effects of MHD and Toroidal Field Ripple on Fast Ion Loss from JET |
| P74 | Zhang | Shear Alfven Wave Spectra in a Periodic Magnetic Mirror Array |
| P76 | Van Dam | Direct Drive by Cyclotron Heating Can Explain Spontaneous Rotation in Tokamaks |
| P78 | Breizman | Alfven Cascade Quasi-modes |
| P80 | Vann (Berk) | Driven Frequency-Sweeping in Plasmas |
| P82 | Nishimura | Alfven Continuum and Toroidal Gap Generation in Global Electromagnetic Gyrokinetic Simulations |
| P84 | Hauff (Jenko) | Redistribution of fast particles by background turbulence |
| P86 | Crocker | Investigation of fast ion mode nonlinear dynamics and spatial structure in NSTX |
| P88 | Sharapov | Recent JET experiments with ICRH accelerated ions |
| P90 | Budny | Predictions of fast ion parameters in ITER Advanced Plasmas |
| P92 | Gorelenkov | Global Beta-induced Alfven-Acoustic Modes in JET and NSTX |
| P93 | Gorelenkov | Theory milestone, update on ITER TAE stability simulations |
